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Simone Guidi (Rome, 1984) is currently a Researcher at the Italian National Research Council – Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas (CNR-ILIESI). His work focuses especially on the history of Early Modern Philosophy, with special attention to the Jesuit Scholastic context and its role in the genesis of the thought of Descartes. He has been an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Coimbra’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLUC), as well as an FCT Post-Doc Fellow at the University of Coimbra’s Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos (IEF). He is the editorial coordinator of the international project Conimbricenses.org (directed by Mário Santiago de Carvalho), and the author of many academic volumes and articles.